Width Quotes

“I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?”“Whoever wrote that note made a mistake. That column isn’t Ionic. Ionic columns are uniform in width. That one’s tapered. It’s Doric—the Greek counterpart. A common mistake.”Kohler did not smile. “The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.”

“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.”

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

“You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”

“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.”

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

“What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so complicated to get it right. I like trousers for evening, especially when they have that width and attitude to them.”

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.”